Program
Conference Venue info link: Room: U259, Uni Dufour
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Monday 15th |
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09:30 - 10:30 | Claude Weber (Geneva) | Title: The first years |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
11:00 - 12:00 | François Laudenbach (Nantes) | Title: A foliated proof of Γ4 = 0 Abstract: Link |
12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch break | |
13:30 - 14:30 | Jean-Claude Hausmann (Geneva) | Title: Differentiable rigidity: André Haefliger's contribution Abstract: Link |
14:45 - 15:45 | Étienne Ghys (ENS Lyon) | Title: Homeomorphisms of the sphere Abstract: Link |
15:45 | Coffee break | |
16:30 | Memories and Music | Place: Conservatoire de Genève |
18:30 | Reception | |
Tuesday 16th |
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09:30 - 10:30 | Pierre de la Harpe (Geneva) |
Title: Laplacien et géométrie spectrale des variétés et des graphes Abstract: Link |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
11:00 - 12:00 | Marc Burger (ETH Zurich) | Title: Compactifications of Teichmueller Spaces in the light of real Algebraic Geometry Abstract: Link |
12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch break | |
14:00 - 15:00 | Rui Fernandes (Urbana-Champaign) | Title: Invariant Kähler metrics for toric fibrations Abstract: Link |
15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break | |
15:30 - 16:30 | Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford) | Title: Topology of spaces of high-dimensional Legendrian knots Abstract: Link |
Wednesday 17th |
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09:30 - 10:30 | David Carchedi (George Mason) | Title: Haefliger structures, orbifolds, topoi, and classifying spaces Abstract: Link |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
11:00 - 12:00 | André Henriques (Oxford) | Title: The Segal-Neretin semigroup of annuli Abstract: Link |
12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch break | |
14:00 - 15:00 | Marc Troyanov (EPFL) | Title: Asymptotic Geometry in SOL Abstract: Link |
15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break | |
15:30 - 16:30 | Martin Bridson (Oxford) | Title: CAT(0) spaces, fixed points, and finite shadows of infinite groups Abstract: Link |